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Anthropology
Undergraduate 1
05/04/2010

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Term
Schwalbe
Definition

 

  1. German anthropologist
  2. Influence over Java Man
  3. First to discover that major pathways to absorb cerebrospinal fluid were lymphatic pathways

 

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Krapina
Definition

 

  1. Excavation site of a population of individuals
  2. Discovered in 1899
  3. 75 different individuals
  4. Neanderthals (30K~)
  5. Cracked marrow bones

 

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Hrdlicka
Definition

 

  1. Personally studied hominid fossils
  2. Worked independently but hypothesized similar ideas on human evolution
  3. Two theories = HS > NEAN > HE & HS > HE
  4. Believed the first theory was more accurate

 

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la Chapelle-aux-Saints
Definition

 

  1. Neanderthal site
  2. Man (40-50 years old) found
  3. Unhealthy = arthritis 
  4. Caused misconceptions of what neanderthals looked like
  5. Indicated that the man was taken care of

 

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Piltdown Hoax
Definition

 

  1. One of the greatest hoax of 20th c.
  2. Skull & jaw found by Dawson; skull(1400cc) = human-like & jaw = ape-like
  3. lasted 50 years
  4. Re-investigated; jaw = orangutan, skull = 800 years old
  5. HOAX WAS BUSTED

 

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Taung
Definition

 

  1. Discovered in 1924
  2. Australopithecus Africanus 
  3. Found by quarrymen in Limestone co.
  4. 2.5 million years old
  5. 360 cc
  6. 3'6" (20-40 pounds)

 

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Sterkfontein
Definition

 

  1. Australopithecus site
  2. First most complete skeleton found (Mrs. Please aka Sts5)

 

 

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Gracile
Definition
Slight, slender, thin, small, light-weight
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Robust
Definition
Full-bodied, powerful, and heady
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Australopithecus
Definition

 

  1. South ape from Africa (~4 million)
  2. Feet = ape-like
  3. Bipedal/ Upright
  4. Exaggerated long arms and slow running speed

 

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Scavaging
Definition
carnivorous feeding behaviour in which a predator consumes corpses or carrion that were not killed to be eaten by the predator or others of its species
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Bipedal
Definition
The ability to walk upright
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Cranial Capacity
Definition
  1. a measure of the volume of the interior of the cranium
  2. used as a rough indicator of the potential intelligence of the organism

 

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Canine Teeth
Definition
Long, pointed teeth used for jabbing prey and ripping flesh; between the incisors and premolars; fang teeth
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Foramen Magnum
Definition
The large opening at the base of the skull through which the spinal cord passes
Term
Koobi Fora
Definition

 

  1. 2 million years old
  2. Hippo butchery site

 

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Laetoli
Definition

 

  1. 3.5 to 3.8 million years old
  2. 30-40ft of just footprints
  3. Footprints belong to two people; one only 4' and the other 4'10" 
  4. Identical to homo sapien footprints 

 

Term
Single Species Hypothesis
Definition
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Emmissary Veins
Definition
The emissary veins are valveless veins which normally drain external veins of the skull into the dural venous sinuses
Term
Er 1470
Definition

 

  1. 780-810 ce
  2. 1.8 million years old
  3. Skull was found in 300+ pieces
  4. one of the first skulls found with an enlarged cranium

 

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AL 288
Definition

  1. "Lucy" (3.2 million~)
  2. Australopithecus Afarensis
  3. 1974, Hadar Ethiopia
  4. Showed signs of walking upright
  5. Only 40% of skeleton found

Term
Sts 5
Definition

 

  1. Found at Sterkfontine site
  2. Mrs. Please
  3. First most complete skeleton ever found 

 

Term
Sts 14
Definition

  1. Fossilized pelvis and vertebrae of an Australopithecus Africanus  
  2. Discovered in 1947 in Sterkfontein
  3. 2.6-2.8 millions years old
  4. Indicated pre-hominid bipedality 

Term
Olduwan Tools
Definition

 

  1. term used to refer to the stone tool industry that was used by Hominins 
  2. Lower Palaeolithic period 
  3. used from 2.6 million years ago up until 1.7 million years ago

 

Term
Homo Erectus
Definition

 

  1. Secondary carnivores (big game hunting)
  2. Long bones = twice as thick as h.sapien
  3. Bones = robust
  4. 3rd molar is smaller than 2nd molar
  5. Incisors = largest = meat eating
  6. Sexual Dimorphism = women (larger) & mean (smaller)

 

Term
Sexual Dimorphism 
Definition
A physical difference between male and female individuals
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Probable Mutation Effect
Definition
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Heat Dissipation
Definition
The ability to transfer heat away from a component into the air to prevent damage to the speake
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Punctuated Equilibrium
Definition
theory in evolutionary biology which proposes that some sexually reproducing species will experience little evolutionary change for most of their geological history
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Mosaic Evolution
Definition
A pattern of evolution where all the features of an organmisn do not evolve at the same rate 
Term
Cave Art
Definition

 

  1. Floating animals & handprints
  2. Shamans = "a different layer of the cosmos"
  3. Two theories = depicts shaman-ism or done by teenagers (graffiti) 
  4. Animals = accurate = sexual dimorph. 

 

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Insideness
Definition
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Trance
Definition

 

  1. Highest form of a religious experience
  2. Three stages: Abstract signs & symbols(seeing "stars"), tunnel (feeling lost/ trapped), and floating (bright lights)
  3. sensory overload and/or deprivation

 

Term
Neanderthal Nose
Definition

 

  1. Widely studied
  2. Arguable whether nean. were part of a diff species due to their large noses
  3. The neanderthals had big noses because it was an adaptation for the cold. Since the nean. had to endure harsh, dry, cold climates, their noses grew bigger to supply moist air for breathing

 

Term
Neanderthal
Definition

 

  1. Depicted as short and stocky = adaptation to preserve heat in cold climates
  2. Big noses
  3. 1600 cc

 

Term
Hortus Cave
Definition
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Saint-Cesaire
Definition

  1. Neanderthal skull found (1979)
  2. 35,000 years old

Term
Diurnal Hunting
Definition

Opposite of nocturnal + hunting 

"Diurnal animals are active during the day"

Term
Acheulean
Definition
an archaeological industry of stone tool manufacture associated withearly humans during the Lower Palaeolithic era across Africa and much of West Asia and Europe. Acheulean tools are typically found with Homo erectus remains
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Big Game Hunting
Definition
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Adaptation
Definition
Any physical, physiological, behavioral change or trait resulting usually from natural selection which better suits a population to its environment, thus improving its chances of survival
Term
Weidenreich 
Definition

  1. German Anthropologist
  2. Discovered that the Piltdown Man was a hoax
  3. Determined that the skull was 800 years old and the jaw belonged to an orangutan using a burn and taste test

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